winepress
Noun

winepress (plural winepresses)

  1. A device used to squeeze juice from grapes as the first part of the process of winemaking.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Job 24:11 ↗:
      Which make oyle within their walles, and tread their winepreſſes, and ſuffer thirſt.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Revelation 14:19 ↗:
      And the Angel thruſt in his ſickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, & cast it into the great winepreſſe of the wrath of God.
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